European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July the stars and stripes Page s police abuse tinder Way info i f 1 n j f by Lee under Philadelphia a Witt mayor prank rigid was in Rome last month for the canonization of John he Bald he we appalled by the ease with which robbers and kidnappers ignored Taw and they never get away with it in my boasted wed grind pm grind pm Rizza using the italian space in which Means break their Back Home in us a state legislative us District attorneys office and citizens groups were Busy investigating allegations of police David Marston empanelled a Federal grand jury to look into possible civil rights violations by Philadel Ida Marston says other cities in America have police brutality but Phil Adelphia b the Only one where the leaders have refuted to take a Strong Public stand against it and to suspend or fire those re last week the american civil liberties Union and a coalition of Community and Legal groups accused Ruzo and police commissioner Joseph Oneill of condoning unwarranted acts of violence by fitting to discipline the groups demanded suspension of four policemen who shot civilians earlier this they say keeping the tour on duty gives a Green fight to every police officer to further abuse the citizens of our they know that whatever they they will gel away with in More than 100 civil suits Are pending in stale and Federal Milnw of from the City and pct Yemen f or such things As false injuries or lost of Eloin was one of Hose beaten by a policeman who sued and last week a common pleas court jury awarded her for a to attack to front of Jar Home during which her Skull was fractured Wilh a Nightstick and four of her Teeth knocked maybe this will teach than to keep Isdr off Williams said after the verdict the Public interest Law a Feder ally funded Arm of the Philadelphia bar said 70 per cent of those who complain of brutality Are Black or puerto not All Are poor or unknown they include a radio station directs a former Toucan stand Dute denies and con res of police do i sure we have Over Vajoos Pobee lust like we Haw Ove Malous report Tao we have a very Good police and there not if there any its toward a charges of police brutality in Philadel phia have received detailed news coverage sped Alt from the Philadel Pula and City coun others in join Call Beame a secs hard action on looters inquirer series said had ruled 80 times since 1974 that homicide Detec Tives acted illegally during interrogations of suspects and one of the most up busted cases was that of was  a Nesses said three twice men pinned Cradle in his car and two others broke their his Houwers four new York a new Yorks Politi Cal leaders called sunday for heavy punishment of looters and arsonists who made last weeks blackout a Nightmare for Mil Lions of la abiding  be Given All Coratti tonal con but there must be Lough jus mayor Abraham beams Lohl a City Hall news 1 have no sympathy for the looters stuck in poverty and joblessness Are no a music or said Jacob it and anybody convicted ought to be very drastically this theme was echoed by Manhattan Borough president Percy the Only Black seeking the he took to the pulpit at Harlem abyssinian Baptist Church and proclaimed to the co Grega heroin availability is at 4year Low Washington up the availability of heroin in the United states is at its lowest Point in four the nations lop drug enforcer said Peter head of the drug enforcement said he based his opinion on the Low level of heroin purity investigators Are finding and a reduced death rate from heroin because of Short smugglers Cut the heroin with drop Ping the purity of retailed heroin to 54 per cent on june the previous Low of per cent came during a shortage caused by the turkish poppy Bena Lnger said heroin fatalities totalled 391 in the first Quarter of the lowest number since he deaths in the second half of 1976 were 21 per cent lower than in the first the first decline since Bensinger said an even More dramatic decline was recorded in heroin there were injury reports during the first Quarter of this compared to 336 for the same period of of a 30 per cent the retail Price of diluted heroin has risen to Cut Al time High of per he in an interview on Abc tvs issues and answers Bensinger them signs of Success to a mexican opium eradication Rifis Nielli lion persons charged with vandalizing and burning must not be excused because they Are because the poor Are As moral and As honest As any other Calls for Hartline met opposition irom the new York Civ Liber lies which attacked the mass arrests and slow arraignment of looting and vandalism the civil liberties group charged that the blackout arrests had produced Mas Sive constitutional violations and claimed coned blacked out new York City now City officials Are blacking out the Bill of who is running for said he had invited business and Tabor leaders to meet Bun monday at noon to discuss setting up a fund to provide immediate Aid Forust Ossmen crippled by fire or he said to would ask the City Council to appropriate the Federal Small business administration has already ply died to service tons for victims of ii hits vandals Wil Hirv two instead of the usual there wore scattered week end blackouts in upper Orange and Rockland All to the immediate North of new York spokesmen for utilities serving those areas said there was no connection with the massive failure of consolidated Edison last wednesday and charges of resisting arrest fryre Uter dismissed against Bat officer Lyle Sprague was charged with aggravated As simple abuse of obstruction of the administration of and a preliminary hearing will be held some other re ported bus rep Ortiz Amis arguing with his wife when witnesses said three cow smashed through the front door and clubbed Ortiz with he was charged with assault and resisting the charges were Jolt who is disabled and Hiis a stuttering allegedly was punched and kicked by five cops in a police station where he was taken on a charge of Possession of one item being probed by Marston is the since dropped murder Case against Robert police Are accused of rounding up seven of Wilkinsons beating the threatening the and forc ing them to sign statements implicating Wilkinson in five Wilkin sons murder conviction was overturned alter another Man admitted tried to Tui probe although Rizw has said he has nothing to nothing to fear from the invest he and other City officials tried to Ell a legislative especially the granting of subpoena which was eventually state David Phila said the slate investigation is not a Witch Hunt but a sincere Effort at meeting the needs of the these people have been beaten up by the bad Apple theory alone is not sufficient to explain the incidence of police abuse in this said Anthony Jack an attorney for the Public interest us of time trading for Independence ill Jil Imi ill still Jef Gall in Harn Calir 1 to a jilt i j i i1u id1 i Odds i 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